for fiscal slope. for like a month now. it s steve kornackiism. before we go i ll give you the credit, steve. thank you. before we go, quickly, you know, i want to get festive for a moment. we have a holiday coming up. that means black friday shopping deals and then of course christmas. a lot of people think about consumer spending and charitable giving around this time of the year. what kind of impact will the fiscal cliff have on that? well, it will have an impact. but interesting enough, consumers seem to be navigating through this as well. they haven t cut back on the hiring. the job market is holding firm. unemployment is still trending lower. so i think christmas it won t be great. i don t see how it can be great, but it will be okay. i think we ll be fine. all right, mark zandi, thank you. thank you. president obama will join 50 million americans on the road this holiday season, but he s not talking turkey. lame duck is on his menu. we ll explain next in the
quick headlines. questions in beirut and other parts of lebanon, leaving two people dead and more than a dozen injured overnight, just hours after dozens of protesters stormed the government palace. sparked by a deadly car bombing sparked by what is happening in syria. and the department of education kept paying employees who stopped showing up for work forasmuch as twelve months. that s according to an investigation. some teachers headache more than $100,000 a year and don t go. steve doesn t even make that in a year. but that s not topic. thank you, brian. if you thought the hanging chad was bad, just wait. some people in florida may have found a way to vote twice in another state. joining us the co-author of who is counting, how fraud centers and bureaucrats put your vote at risk. john joins us from sacramento. john, how many people out there
i ve been flooded with congratulations by e-mail from people all over the country, including many whom i don t know. saying thank you, god bless you. we re so happy you did this. mr. obama in the polls, before he endorsed same-sex marriage had been leading, within a small margin of error. now, in some polls it s showing it s neck and neck. and mitt romney may be ahead, as well. and with women. there s been a turnaround in polling with women. do you think that this is affecting the president s numbers? his endorsement of same-sex marriage? i wouldn t think so. it may do so. but i wouldn t think so. it s too far out. we re too far from election day, to be playing much reliance on these polls. give us a couple more months and we can say, yes. that s scary to hear or i m happy to hear that. i think you bring up a good point. i think most people decide within a couple of weeks, days or hours before the election. just the same as before, they pick who the actual nominee s g
for planning what prosecutors call acts of domestic terrorism. they faced a judge today. their bail was set at $1.5 million each. and police say, they were stockpiling firebombs and weapons and planning to use them in chicago this weekend. that s where world leaders are gathering for that nato summit, kicking off tomorrow. more people forced to leave their homes because of a raging wildfire in arizona. it s called the gladiator fire. it s one of four active fires that are spreading and intensifying. four, small towns are now under evacuation orders. the gladiator fire has torched about 13,000 akers. winds are easing. that helps fight fighters here. enough already. the rhetoric heats up on the campaign trail. so does the bull. tonight, we cut right through. mirror, mirror, on the wall. who is the fairest beauty queen of them all? my family didn t understand. why would i expect anybody else to understand? it could be the one who was born a man. getting fresh with the
u.s. oil companies, are raking in near record profits, so why are they still getting huge taxpayer subsidies? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. he skipped the last presidential debate and sidelined himself in iowa saying he wants to focus on the first of the nation s primary state. jon huntsman is betting almost everything on new hampshire, but is trail ng the state while romney is enjoying a substantial lead and now, huntsman is joining some of romney s sharpest critics in questioning romney s conservative credentials. jon huntsman is joining us now from salt lake city. thanks very much for coming in. thank you, wolf. an honor to be with you. george will, the conservative columnist writing in an upcoming edition of the washington post says this about mitt romney. he says you agree with george will on that? those are pretty tough words, wolf. all i can say is this is the time when this nation wants leadership. we ve been looking for leadership for